geordie85

I hope so. I can't afford to throw more money at this hobby for it to not work

Thanks for your reply. I usually power my mount with a tracer 22ah battery but it was running low last night as I'd forgot to charge it. I've just tried using mains power and it worked fine and seems to have fixed my problem. Will have to wait until Saturday night to give it a try at night as I'm working late tonight. Once again thank you

So as fortune would have it the next few nights are clear and I cannot take advantage of it. I set up last night and had a Madrid of problems that I was battling with for over 4 hours. In the end I just gave up but I still have a massive problem, my mount won't goto in declination. I can move the mount north and south by pressing the buttons, both with eqmod and the handset, but when I tell it to goto it starts, I hear a chunk like metal hitting against eachother, then stops. I've tried again this morning and the same thing happens. Does anyone have any ideas what's going on? Fingers crossed it's an easy fix.

What about the qhy version? It's cheaper than both the Altair and zwo. https://www.modernastronomy.com/shop/cameras/cooled-ccd/qhy-cooled-ccd-cameras/qhy183c/

After you've stacked your images open your image, go to channels, select just the red layer. Now copy and paste that into a new, grey scale clipboard. Now you'll have only the ha data and none of the noise from the green and blue channels.

Are you sure you're not trying to debayer your images? Even though they are mono, if you have debayer selected you'll get a tartan like image. I can't see your images as I'm on my phone. Maybe you could upload them as jpegs?

You've got some beautiful star colour. What's your process? I'm struggling to get any blue in my m106 image

The thing that annoys me most about this is people are now trying to sell their used gear, that's years old, for more than the new price when they bought it. I also recently saw a used neq6 for £1000 and another, on the same website, with upgrades alt az bolts for £1100. So that's a £100 increase for some used £30 bolts.

Since your aperture isn't changing size, the light grasp remains the same. You will have a slightly larger fov though.

Try doing them in the dark so you can be sure of no light leakage. Add some paper between the light panel and dew shield and have your scope pointing up so the panel rests on top.

There's already alot of sound advice on here and alot of people advise for astrophotography the mount is probably most important. One thing I have learned is to decide my target first before even setting up and stick with it. Data is what were after and when I first started I'd bouce around taking about half an hour's worth of data on several different targets and just have rubbish images. Data is key, spend a whole night or two on the same target.

And I'm at work all night, sods law at its finest

I get that. I almost always have a stack and process of a night's data to see how things have turned out. But I've ended up with loads of unfinished images and multiple stacks of data on the same object

Very nice, this is one of my favourite targets to image, yet I've never managed an image that I'm satisfied with. I hope that having a dual rig now will help eliminate that once I get some clear skies.

Here is my 2 attempts. The first is SHO and the second is HSO. Both processed in Photoshop with no noise reduction.

That's absolutely stunning

Glad I'm not the only one who thinks so

That's just there for size comparison

You need to debayer your images in DSS

A jtd dual rig saddle thanks to FLO. I already feel like it's alot more sturdy than the skywatcher guide scope mount I've been using, with limited success. It's actually alot bigger than I thought.

Last night I was trying to get some narrowband data on the cone nebula. I don't think the moon is gonna make things easy. Scopes are aligned using the skywatcher guide scope mount. It is struggling as I'm getting slight drift with the flt98. Ha on the esprit, o111 and s11 on the flt98.

I highly doubt it'll go smoothly as I have a 5 year old who's obsessed with Lego too. Hopefully your missing piece will arrive soon

I'd like to add that when attaching the adapter make sure the screws are tight. When I first attached mine 1 screw was slightly looser than the rest (still tight, but not as tight) and this caused tilt. I had to dismantle whilst the camera was connected to my laptop and cooled and tighten it. All was well after this.

Same to you. That'll be insane. Will you double your exposure times on targets or image twice as many targets?

Another great image. You've really got that rasa working well for you